is tor a honeypot?

>>61532182
No it is not, so please keep doing your illegal activities exclusively through tor.

>>61532182
Seems fine to me. I'd definitely recommend it if you're doing dodgy shit on the web.

>>61532182
The correct term would be honeynet and no, it's just plain compromised.

>>61533475
Shoosh. TOR is perfectly safe for anything illegal.

>>61532182
well its not perfectly safe for those activities society finds utterly intolerable, nowhere is. You'll be fine buying your drugs tho.

>>61532182
Tor isn't a honeypot, but there are honeypots on tor

>>61533475
If Tor is compromised, there's yet to be an arrest based on it. All dark web raids to date have been the result of glaring opsec issues that were nothing to do with Tor itself. So if they do have an ace up their sleeve, they're saving it for something much bigger than a few pedos.

>>61533622
they just tell you its bad opsec why would they reveal to the public they compromised tor ?

>>61533649
Bad opsec in an alphabet agency's eyes might be failing to mitigate a quantum insert attack from a compromised node.

>>61533649
>they just tell you its bad opsec

No they don't. The bad opsec is made clear through the glaring mistakes made by the service operators, which are then reported on and/or revealed in court. Like the dumb fuck behind Silk Road running his drug empire from an unsecured laptop in a coffee shop, enabling an agent to just snatch it out of his hands. You don't need a Tor exploit to catch people this stupid.

>>61532182
everything is a false flag honeypot, Alex

>>61532182
Have you ever went to _any_ government branch? Police, Public Hospital (Sorry Americans), Public University (Sorry Americans), DMV, Customs, etc.
All that bureaucracy to do really simple stuff, why would you think the other more secretive branches of your government isn't the same?
If some bureaucrat want your head, he will have your head, and you will scream "muh constitution" and he will gently whispers in your ear "muh papers and shit". If the government operates honeypots is unlikely that is working; somebody is watching and it is not taxpayer waste machine so they get better funding the next year.

>>61533866
>Above the state and behind the fa9ades of ostensible power, in a maze of
multiplied offices, underlying all shifts of authority and in a chaos of inefficiency,
lies the power nucleus of the country, the superefficient and supercompetent
services of the secret police.
>The only rule of which everybody in a totalitarian state may be sure is
that the more visible government agencies are, the less power they carry,
and the less is known of the existence of an institution, the more powerful
it will ultimately tum out to be.
>Hannah Arendt, from the origin of totalitarianism

>>61533649
Because that's how the american justice system works. They need to describe, truthfully, how they caught the suspect or they risk letting him walk free on a technicality.

Tor is a very robust technology. However, while it very effectively anonymises information passing through it, it can't scrub the information for identifying bits of data.

Only if you don't want to find OPVA3

>>61533866
This. It's just like the military.

Despite what the ancaps and lolbertarians say, you better start worrying when the government starts privatizing elements of the bureaucracy. Tyranny will be so much more efficient in the hands of the private sector.

>>61532182
if you have to ask this question, you are not capable of hiding anything online from the NSA.